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TSWANA

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The dialect of Sotho spoken by the Tswana in Botswana

Synonyms:

Sechuana; Setswana; Tswana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Tswana" is a kind of...):

Sotho (any of the mutually intelligible southern Bantu languages of the Sotho in Botswana and South Africa and Lesotho)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A member of a Bantu people living chiefly in Botswana and western South Africa

Synonyms:

Batswana; Bechuana; Tswana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Tswana" is a kind of...):

Bantu (a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa)

Holonyms ("Tswana" is a member of...):

Botswana; Republic of Botswana (a landlocked republic in south-central Africa that became independent from British control in the 1960s)

Republic of South Africa; South Africa (a republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers))

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